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Invertebrate

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means an animal lacking a backbone or spinal column
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Stage 1 of 2
in
Latin · ancient
"without"
without, combined with vertebratus (having a spine)
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Stage 2 of 2
invertebrate
English · 1826
"an animal lacking a backbone"
adopted by biologists for animals lacking a backbone
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